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On Trump suing the founders of Truth Social:
If he believes “making a series of costly mistakes” is a problem, he should be banned from any business transaction at all.
re: #92 Belafon
Ben of the Corn’s sister (the video is dumber than you might think):
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They want women to stay home, pop out kids, and then be the sole caregivers…but they don’t want to support them and they don’t want to pay men enough to support a family on a single income.
From downstairs:
re: #97 ckkatz
I think that we lived through it here 2016-2020. And I like to think that the high level corruption did not influence too many of us into a life of crime. Of course I have been wrong before.
I have a question for you. You were in Germany during the Cold War. Did anyone ever talk with your unit, or even did you talk about it among yourselves. About what you would do if a Warsaw Pact tank or anti-tank missile team was shooting at you while they were hiding in a German building known to be occupied by civilians?
My experience was the expectation that the environment would be permissive.
It would have been very permissive and I hate thinking about that scenario. The only reason I don’t know how many would have died from us is how few would have been left after the nuclear, chemical and very possibly biological weapons being used in the early 80’s in middle Europe…
Yet they hammered us, monthly, about not obeying illegal orders. About not doing the wrong thing. About being better than what They had been in WWII and We had been in The ‘Nam (though they _NEVER_ said that name even though the lessons were obvious to anyone). The Army in 1983 was in a damn strange place. I only understood just how bad crazy it really was when I got back to the states and got out of active duty and about 6 months later in a fit of boredom joined the National Guard.
We went to the nearest training post. All day we did normal training. Then that night? Out came a half barrel, a bonfire, and it was a fucking frat party just with out the sorority chicks. I was deeply shocked. Even the stoners on active didn’t party like those senior NCOs.
Things were changing, though. A year later, no more parties in the field.
Less than a decade later I watched a half dozen good troops end up in the stockade over less than a lid of pot because an ambitious 1LT wanted to make a name. He did but not like he hoped, thankfully. “Health & welfare” my ass. I didn’t smoke since I was into alcohol, but didn’t give a rats fuck if people did as long as the job was done.
Finding the balance has always been the bitch in this.
re: #4 William Lewis
From downstairs:
It would have been very permissive and I hate thinking about that scenario. The only reason I don’t know how many would have died from us is how few would have been left after the nuclear, chemical and very possibly biological weapons being used in the early 80’s in middle Europe…
Yet they hammered us, monthly, about not obeying illegal orders. About not doing the wrong thing. About being better than what They had been in WWII and We had been in The ‘Nam (though they _NEVER_ said that name even though the lessons were obvious to anyone). The Army in 1983 was in a damn strange place. I only understood just how bad crazy it really was when I got back to the states and got out of active duty and about 6 months later in a fit of boredom joined the National Guard.
We went to the nearest training post. All day we did normal training. Then that night? Out came a half barrel, a bonfire, and it was a fucking frat party just with out the sorority chicks. I was deeply shocked. Even the stoners on active didn’t party like those senior NCOs.
Things were changing, though. A year later, no more parties in the field.
Less than a decade later I watched a half dozen good troops end up in the stockade over less than a lid of pot because an ambitious 1LT wanted to make a name. He did but not like he hoped, thankfully. “Health & welfare” my ass. I didn’t smoke since I was into alcohol, but didn’t give a rats fuck if people did as long as the job was done.
Finding the balance has always been the bitch in this.
Yup, I remember many of the same things.
One of the more memorable was the Sunday morning drill after the St Patrick’s Day Saturday night libations. The uniforms were green, the faces were green and so was the throwup in the bathrooms.
By that point I was older, had a wife, house, and civilian job, and was no longer into partying.
Heh, when the Battalion XO needed people for the surprise drug test, the very first person he volunteered was O3 me. Because he knew I was going to be clean. I did not disappoint him. I guess that I am _really_ boring.
Killed another thread. From below:
re: #58 teleskiguy
Bob Newhart is still with us. He’s 94.
My parents, good Rockfeller Republicans, turned me on to Newhart with his Button-Down Mind LPs from the early 60s. (They also gave me a love of Tom Lehrer (having both his self-published albums), the Limeliters, Odetta, and the Weavers). My father also talked about how Funny Andy Griffith was, especially a routine called “What it Was, Was Football”.
Now I knew ANdy purely from the Andy Griffith SHow which I found mostly boring. So I did not really listen much to my father’s accolades. Then, one day, he came hopme from K-mart with a whole bunch of radio compilations, one of which had his routine.
I laughed my ass off. Made me appreciate my father’s opinion much molre.
re: #1 Belafon
I went to go look at the facebook post from the last thread, and found this:
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It’s not about cybersecurity. It’s about the woman who died when the police raided her newspaper for criticizing the sheriff.
I’ve gotten several of these in the last few days on posts I made years ago that are not reelvant to the removal. Fabebook algorithm gone rogue?
re: #5 ckkatz
Yup, I remember many of the same things.
One of the more memorable was the Sunday morning drill after the St Patrick’s Day Saturday night libations. The uniforms were green, the faces were green and so was the throwup in the bathrooms.
By that point I was older, had a wife, house, and civilian job, and was no longer into partying.
Heh, when the Battalion XO needed people for the surprise drug test, the very first person he volunteered was O3 me. Because he knew I was going to be clean. I did not disappoint him. I guess that I am _really_ boring.
Irony - at that point in time, I could have been volunteered too. Now? Not so much (I do love me my Delta 9 gummies & they _will_ burn bright on a pee test 😈 )
Brendan O’Neill: The truth about Israel’s ‘friendly fire’
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Vast numbers of civilians have been killed by accident by the US in recent years. At another wedding party in 2004, this time in Iraq, 11 women and 14 children were killed by American fire. Was there a ‘full, transparent explanation’ for that calamity?Terrible accidents happen in war. That’s because war is hell. If you hate the war in Gaza, as you should, then you should aim your ire at Hamas, the virulently anti-Semitic terror group that started this war with its pogrom against the people of southern Israel on 7 October. The seven decent souls of World Central Kitchen would be alive today had Hamas not taken the decision to visit its racist barbarism on the Jewish State.
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Across social media, the cry goes up: Israel did this on purpose. It seems Israel is the only state not allowed to make mistakes. Where us decent Westerners kill friends in error, Israel does it intentionally, with malice at its heart. The double standards are staggering. It is hypocritical and ridiculous for the citizens of nations that have accidentally killed far more people than Israel to now lecture Israel about its wayward bombs.
It smacks of bigotry, too. We make mistakes, they commit crimes. We err, they murder. We should be forgiven, they should not. There’s an ironically neocolonialist bent to this fury with Israel, for it bigs up the West, despite its history of war crimes, as a suitable judge and jury of that uppity little state over there.
re: #9 ckkatz
This kind of argument can always be made, and its applicability depends very much on the details. Yes, war is hell and one of the main reason is that shit happens.
However, in this particular case, Israel is being led by the hardest right elements in its politics that have a clear agenda in favor of prolonging the war and making it worse. The Israeli response to an inexcusable terrorist act by Hamas has been collective punishment of the entire population of Gaza, and that’s unacceptable.
The facts of what’s happening (collective punishment) and who is doing it (hard right nut jobs that don’t get any benefit of the doubt) can’t be set aside because they are inconvenient. The numerous sins of every other major power in their wars, past and present, are, strictly speaking, irrelevant.
Iran-US secret backchannel talks suggest that for both sides pragmatism beats ideology
Glad to hear. There is only one major country in the ME not yet part of Bidens Middle East economic Corridor - Iran. But they exist only a short distance across the Strait of Hormuz from connecting to this corridor. If Biden has contact with pragmatic Iranians who might be interetsed here (ie Iran has one of the more educated populations that could see an economic revival if they could connect to the EU market).
Sure its a big dream but no worse than the Marshall Plan or Reconstruction in trying to remake the world after one of these economically disrupted periods.
re: #11 silverdolphin
Iran-US secret backchannel talks suggest that for both sides pragmatism beats ideology
Glad to hear. There is onlu one major country in the ME not yet part of Bidens Middle East economic Corridor - Iran. But they exist only a short distance across the Strait of Homuz from connecting to this corridor. If Biden has contact with pragmatiuc Iranians who might be interetsed here (ie Iran has one of the more educated populations that could see an economic revival if they could connect to the EU market).
Sure its a big dream but no worse than the Marshall Plan or Reconstruction inb trying to remake the world after one of these economically distupted periods.
Always does. Reality always beats fantasy except if you’re in bed with someone half your age … 😍
re: #12 William Lewis
Always does. Reality always beats fantasy except if you’re in bed with someone half your age … 😍
Man, I swear I proofread every time. Spellcheck does not work on my computer. My dyslexia must be returning along with my Spectrum problems (harder to read people leading to misunderstandings)
re: #13 silverdolphin
Man, I swear I proofread every time. Spellcheck does not work on my computer. My dyslexia must be returning along with my Spectrum problems (harder to read people leading to misunderstandings)
That’s ok, I have a younger internet only euro friend right now and we love teasing each other with things that will never happen. It’s really quite cute if you know what’s happening.
Your semi-regular reminder that the time to check your room and lodge complaints is when you check in, not 12 hours later when you just got back from the club and find that things are not up to your high standards. At 3pm, we still have a plenty of open rooms and perhaps housekeeping staff on-site who can spruce things up for you. At 2am, I have nothing available to move you to and housekeeping will not be here for another 7 hours.
And no, we will not give you a comp upgrade at any time of the day just because the room does not look exactly like the picture on the website.
re: #16 Targetpractice
Your semi-regular reminder that the time to check your room and lodge complaints is when you check in, not 12 hours later when you just got back from the club and find that things are not up to your high standards. At 3pm, we still have a plenty of open rooms and perhaps housekeeping staff on-site who can spruce things up for you. At 2am, I have nothing available to move you to and housekeeping will not be here for another 7 hours.
And no, we will not give you a comp upgrade at any time of the day just because the room does not look exactly like the picture on the website.
And don’t complain about a “broken TV” 6 hours after check in and expect to _not_ get charged the $500 to replace it… Idjits.
re: #15 William Lewis
That’s ok, I have a younger internet only euro friend right now and we love teasing each other with things that will never happen. It’s really quite cute if you know what’s happening.
I’ve done that a lot. And then the shock when it really happens ;-) Life is stranger than we think.
re: #17 William Lewis
And don’t complain about a “broken TV” 6 hours after check in and expect to _not_ get charged the $500 to replace it… Idjits.
I get the opposite, it’s “Yeah, we just wanted you to know that when we checked in, the bathroom door was busted off its hinges.”
“Oh, I’m sorry about that, did you wish to move rooms?”
“No, we just wanted you to know it wasn’t us so we didn’t get charged.”
“Ooookay, would you me to have maintenance fix it in the morning?”
“Uh sure, that will work, but there’s no rush.”
“Right, note has been made. Enjoy the rest of your night.”
re: #19 Dr Lizardo
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When the final chapter of the saga of the Cybertruck is written, I wonder what conclusion history will reach: Ambitious flop, passion project, or cynical cash-grab.
re: #22 Targetpractice
When the final chapter of the saga of the Cybertruck is written, I wonder what conclusion history will reach: Ambitious flop, passion project, or cynical cash-grab.
Probably something that started off as a passion project, morphed into a cynical cash-grab and ended up being an ambitious flop.
re: #22 Targetpractice
When the final chapter of the saga of the Cybertruck is written, I wonder what conclusion history will reach: Ambitious flop, passion project, or cynical cash-grab.
E-Edsel
re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
E-Edsel
See, the only problem with that comparison is that Edsel was a cynical cash-grab, it was Ford execs trying to squeeze in another model range between Mercury and Lincoln to milk the suckers that much harder. It wasn’t all that ambitious because Ford’s competitors had already turned badge-engineering into a science, nor was there any passion in the project because otherwise they might have actually paid attention to build quality.
The better example is (unsurprisingly) the DeLorean, because that John DeLorean trying to flex on his former bosses by proving he could build a sports car outside the system that was everything he believed a sports car should be without compromises…except he compromised on pretty much everything just to get it built. And that’s what the Cybertruck feels like, Elmo trying so desperately to flex on the major manufacturers by building a “futuristic” truck that is superior in every way by pushing the cutting edge of technology, but building it to the specs he wants would bankrupt the company so it’s riddled with compromises that are now slowly eating whatever appeal it had left.
re: #25 Targetpractice
Yeah, the DeLorean is probably the better comparison. A passion project that went down the drain, and had it not been for Back to the Future, probably would’ve been long forgotten by now save hardcore auto enthusiasts.
“Edsel” still lingers in the language as a designation for any ambitious failure. I am old enough to remember seeing the things out on the road.
re: #22 Targetpractice
When the final chapter of the saga of the Cybertruck is written, I wonder what conclusion history will reach: Ambitious flop, passion project, or cynical cash-grab.
re: #23 Dr Lizardo
Probably something that started off as a passion project, morphed into a cynical cash-grab and ended up being an ambitious flop.
re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
E-Edsel
re: #25 Targetpractice
See, the only problem with that comparison is that Edsel was a cynical cash-grab, it was Ford execs trying to squeeze in another model range between Mercury and Lincoln to milk the suckers that much harder. It wasn’t all that ambitious because Ford’s competitors had already turned badge-engineering into a science, nor was there any passion in the project because otherwise they might have actually paid attention to build quality.
The better example is (unsurprisingly) the DeLorean, because that John DeLorean trying to flex on his former bosses by proving he could build a sports car outside the system that was everything he believed a sports car should be without compromises…except he compromised on pretty much everything just to get it built. And that’s what the Cybertruck feels like, Elmo trying so desperately to flex on the major manufacturers by building a “futuristic” truck that is superior in every way by pushing the cutting edge of technology, but building it to the specs he wants would bankrupt the company so it’s riddled with compromises that are now slowly eating whatever appeal it had left.
re: #27 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Edsel” still lingers in the language as a designation for any ambitions failure. I am old enough to remember seeing the things out on the road.
Looks like the end of the road for 99 Cents Only stores:
99 Cents Only Stores will close all 371 of its stores and wind down its business operations after more than four decades, the City of Commerce discount chain announced Thursday.
“This was an extremely difficult decision and is not the outcome we expected or hoped to achieve,” interim Chief Executive Mike Simoncic said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the last several years have presented significant and lasting challenges in the retail environment.”
He cited multiple factors, including the “unprecedented impact” of the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting consumer demand, persistent inflationary pressures and rising levels of shrink — an industry term that refers to loss of inventory attributed to reasons such as shoplifting, employee theft and administrative errors.
re: #29 Dr Lizardo
So the business model of selling useless crap to people who cannot afford anything else because they all work in a cheap retail store that pays minimum wage is no longer viable?
re: #30 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So the business model of selling useless crap to people who cannot afford anything else because they all work in a cheap retail store that pays minimum wage is no longer viable?
I looked into their history, and in 2011, 99 Cents Only was bought by private equity firm Ares Management and CPP Investment Board: the deal was finalized in 2012 and the new owners started laying people off as early as 2013.
Seems to me more of the classic case of PE firms doing what they do best - stripping the company of anything of value, then either selling off the hallowed-out husk or wrapping up operations entirely.
re: #29 Dr Lizardo
… and rising levels of shrink — an industry term that refers to loss of inventory attributed to reasons such as shoplifting, employee theft and administrative errors.
Always blaming those people.
Not that the executives sucked out all the money with their elaborate compensation.
Think about this: it’s a 99¢ store. If every item is sold for one dollar (rounding up), then how much did the corporation pay for that item? Fifty cents?
Then how many items have to be stolen to be equivalent to a million dollar salary of an executive? (Do the math.)
Tens of millions of items will have to be stolen to equate to the salaries of the top executives.
Alabama House passes bill requiring activated porn filters on devices used by minors
The Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill that would require makers of cellphones and tablets to equip the devices with a filter to block pornography that would be activated when the device is activated for use by a minor.
The Alabama state legislature and Gov MeeMaw Ivey will decide what porn is.
re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Always blaming those people.
Not that the executives sucked out all the money with their elaborate compensation.
Think about this: it’s a 99¢ store. If every item is sold for one dollar (rounding up), then how much did the corporation pay for that item? Fifty cents?
Then how many items have to be stolen to be equivalent to a million dollar salary of an executive? (Do the math.)
Tens of millions of items will have to be stolen to equate to the salaries of the top executives.
Of course, it’s just a BS excuse. That’s not to say there isn’t shoplifting at any retail store, but like you said, it’d have to a storewide, thrice-weekly “Five Finger Discount Day!” event to come to that level.
No, Ares Management and CPP Investment Board stripped the company for everything it was worth, and now they’re doing the Fortune 500 equivalent of the Mob’s “bust the place out”.
re: #31 Dr Lizardo
Seems to me more of the classic case of PE firms doing what they do best - stripping the company of anything of value, then either selling off the hallowed-out husk or wrapping up operations entirely.
Late-stage Capitalism
re: #34 Dr Lizardo
Of course, it’s just a BS excuse. That’s not to say there isn’t shoplifting at any retail store, but like you said, it’d have to a storewide, thrice-weekly “Five Finger Discount Day!” event to come to that level.
No, Ares Management and CPP Investment Board stripped the company for everything it was worth, and now they’re doing the Fortune 500 equivalent of the Mob’s “bust the place out”.
and what is the point of risking shoplifitng charges over cheap dollar junk? You wanna steal stuff you can resell at a tidy profit.
re: #27 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Edsel” still lingers in the language as a designation for any ambitious failure. I am old enough to remember seeing the things out on the road.
My mom had one. She parked it in front of our house and it then drove itself of into the field that was next to our house.
I hadn’t been born yet but that car was legend in my family.
OH WOW! FREE GOATS, EVERYONE!!
The tiny, remote Italian island of Alicudi is home to only around 100 residents and, ideally, about 100 wild goats.
This year, however, the ratio of humans to animals has become wildly unbalanced.
The island has been overrun by six times its desired number of goat inhabitants and has more of the animals per capita than anywhere else that counts such things—and mayor Riccardo Gullo is calling on anyone who can help to pitch in to solve the issue.
Gullo told CNN Thursday that he does not care whether you know anything about raising goats, as long as you have a boat to get them off the island—once you’ve caught them.
re: #36 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and what is the point of risking shoplifitng charges over cheap dollar junk? You wanna steal stuff you can resell at a tidy profit.
We have a luxury watch store here in Ostrava that’s been broken into twice, with hundreds of high-end watches like Omega, Breitling, Panerai, etc., having been stolen.
Whomever pulled off those capers has never been caught. I have no idea where on earth you’d move that kind of hot merch, but at least it makes some sense. Steal a Breitling Superocean, sell it for €3,500 (half the retail price of €6,950) and you’ve got a handsome sum.
Stealing something from a 99 Cents Only store? LOL. It’s not even worth a minimal effort.
re: #38 Dr Lizardo
OH WOW! FREE GOATS, EVERYONE!!
I can only recommend the Aeolian islands as a tourist destination: history, charm, quaint isolation.
And some of the best seafood you will find in the Med.
re: #33 Decatur Deb
Alabama House passes bill requiring activated porn filters on devices used by minors
The Alabama state legislature and Gov MeeMaw Ivey will decide what porn is.
Because there’s absolutely no chance that a future Alabama GQP government could…say…activate the same filters to block adults from accessing porn in the name of “morality”….right?
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re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Late-stage Capitalism
Math. Inflation eventually caught up with the “Dollar” business model. The stores tried to keep down costs by pioneering shrinkflation packaging, but they simply can’t buy enough product to keep their identity credible.
re: #41 Targetpractice
Because there’s absolutely no chance that a future Alabama GQP government could…say…activate the same filters to block adults from accessing porn in the name of “morality”….right?
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Going to every possible length to protect minors from seeing images of sexual activity, won’t lift a finger to protect them from being torn apart by bullets.
re: #42 Decatur Deb
Math. Inflation eventually caught up with the “Dollar” business model. The stores tried to keep down costs by pioneering shrinkflation packaging, but they simply can’t buy enough product to keep their identity credible.
And the fact that they are a blight on the landscape in any rural area with multiple Dollar Stores cropping up in every strip mall.
re: #42 Decatur Deb
Math. Inflation eventually caught up with the “Dollar” business model. The stores tried to keep down costs by pioneering shrinkflation packaging, but they simply can’t buy enough product to keep their identity credible.
Comments I’ve seen on the matter say that it’s been quite some time since things were $0.99 - similar to Dollar Tree stores.
And a lot of the comments reflected that you could just shop at Wal-Mart and the price differences were negligible at best.
re: #33 Decatur Deb
Alabama House passes bill requiring activated porn filters on devices used by minors
The Alabama state legislature and Gov MeeMaw Ivey will decide what porn is.
Makes new wonder if phone manufacturers are going to nope out of states. Close all apple stores in the state. Pull all Android phones.
Here ya go. Have a Jitterbug.
re: #46 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Makes new wonder if phone manufacturers are going to nope out of states. Close all apple stores in the state. Pull all Android phones.
Here ya go. Have a Jitterbug.
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Do you think Apple would close BOTH our stores?
re: #47 Decatur Deb
Do you think Apple would close BOTH our stores?
Really? Just two in the whole state?
re: #48 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Really? Just two in the whole state?
a matter of median income and clientele
re: #48 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Really? Just two in the whole state?
Birmingham and Huntsville. The nearest is 250 miles from here.
re: #41 Targetpractice
Because there’s absolutely no chance that a future Alabama GQP government could…say…activate the same filters to block adults from accessing porn in the name of “morality”….right?
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You say sarcasm, but look at the phrasing of the bill: “on devices used by minors”. This includes the family computer (remember, Alabama, I highly doubt most families have more than one), and while it’s probably true that most minors these days would have a phone or a tablet to do that sort of thing on, it’s a foot in the door. How long before the first ruling comes down, “Any device in a household with a minor must have a porn filter on it”? I guarantee you it won’t be long.
I should’ve had the beagle. I know too many words.
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re: #51 Nerdy Fish
Manufacturers would have to maintain the Alabama legislature definition of obscenity. The legislature will start safe, with CP, but will head for September Morn, and won’t stop at Michaelangelo.
re: #51 Nerdy Fish
You say sarcasm, but look at the phrasing of the bill: “on devices used by minors”. This includes the family computer (remember, Alabama, I highly doubt most families have more than one), and while it’s probably true that most minors these days would have a phone or a tablet to do that sort of thing on, it’s a foot in the door. How long before the first ruling comes down, “Any device in a household with a minor must have a porn filter on it”? I guarantee you it won’t be long.
It’s the foot in the door, the camel nose under the tent flap: Once you mandate filtering, then the limits on what is filtered and the audience it’s filtered from are subject to the whims of the government in power. And there’s plenty of precedent for governments and courts alike to widen the definition of “obscene” when it suits them. Such as declaring protest imagery as “obscene” because it is “anti-American” and thus “immoral.”
re: #53 Decatur Deb
Manufacturers would have to maintain the Alabama legislature definition of obscenity. The legislature will start safe, with CP, but will head for September Morn, and won’t stop at Michaelangelo.
I mean, truth be told, they’d farm that work off to a software company, and then devices marked for sale in the state of Alabama would have that particular app pre-installed. So this could even result in being an unexpected grift, if the legislature happens to decide that one of their Republican wingnut friends’ porn-blocking software is the only acceptable solution to the problem.
re: #55 Targetpractice
It’s the foot in the door, the camel nose under the tent flap: Once you mandate filtering, then the limits on what is filtered and the audience it’s filtered from are subject to the whims of the government in power. And there’s plenty of precedent for governments and courts alike to widen the definition of “obscene” when it suits them. Such as declaring protest imagery as “obscene” because it is “anti-American” and thus “immoral.”
Yeah, exactly — but every time I bring this up, wingnuts reliably inform me that the government would NEVER use those powers for evil without our consent, because they would totally respect the spirit in which these laws were written and would never DARE to use them against their authors’ wishes.
re: #58 Decatur Deb
Mike Pence has just come out supporting the original Alabama law that shut down IVF, saying the relaxed protections for IVF clinics are immoral. They are out there, and they’re not going away soon.
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Mike Pence, that paragon of religious virtue, who can’t be alone in a room with a woman because of the appearance of immorality, who sentenced many Hoosiers to certain death because he wanted to stick it to Teh Ghey, whose Inquisition-like reign of terror was so abundantly incompetent and capricious that he was about to be voted out of Indianapolis before Donald Trump came along and rescued his political career - and his reward was to nearly get executed by a bloodthirsty mob.
re: #6 silverdolphin
A Face in the Crowd showcases Andy Griffith’s true talent as an actor. And the film was eerily prescient about the linkage of entertainment and politics. The film was shunned from awards consideration because director Elia Kazan had egregiously dropped dime on Hollywood contemporaries during the HUAC hearings a few years earlier. But Griffith more than deserved an Oscar nomination, though he probably still would have lost to Alec Guinness for The Bridge on the River Kwai.
If you ever see A Face in the Crowd pop up on TCM, check it out. Griffith ain’t no Sheriff Andy Taylor in this.
re: #62 TarHellion
A Face in the Crowd showcases Andy Griffith’s true talent as an actor. And the film was eerily prescient about the linkage of entertainment and politics. The film was shunned from awards consideration because director Elia Kazan had egregiously dropped dime on Hollywood contemporaries during the HUAC hearings a few years earlier. But Griffith more than deserved an Oscar nomination, though he probably still would have lost to Alec Guinness for The Bridge on the River Kwai.
If you ever see A Face in the Crowd pop up on TCM, check it out. Griffith ain’t no Sheriff Andy Taylor in this.
I agree. I’d seen reruns of The Andy Griffith Show as a kid, but one lazy day, had a chance to catch A Face in the Crowd on the TCM channel in the late ’90s.
I was blown away by his performance. He definitely had the acting chops to pull it off, but just from watching his old sitcom, you’d never have imagined it. A real tour de force performance.
re: #62 TarHellion
A Face in the Crowd showcases Andy Griffith’s true talent as an actor. And the film was eerily prescient about the linkage of entertainment and politics. The film was shunned from awards consideration because director Elia Kazan had egregiously dropped dime on Hollywood contemporaries during the HUAC hearings a few years earlier. But Griffith more than deserved an Oscar nomination, though he probably still would have lost to Alec Guinness for The Bridge on the River Kwai.
If you ever see A Face in the Crowd pop up on TCM, check it out. Griffith ain’t no Sheriff Andy Taylor in this.
How Andy Griffith Predicted Glenn Beck
theatlantic.com
And Keith Olbermann always referred to Glenn Beck as Lonesome Rhodes.
How long before and after the eclipse should I wear those eclipse glasses while driving?
Update on that fireworks display at an airbase in Russia yesterday:
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Gonna be that way masto-instance?
Ukraine has carried out a drone attack against targets in southern Russia, and claims to have destroyed six Russian planes at an airbase in Rostov region.
Security sources told BBC Ukrainian eight more aircraft were badly damaged, and 20 service personnel could have been killed or injured.
The Morozovsk base houses Su-27 and Su-34 aircraft used on the front line in Ukraine, the sources said.
There has been no word from Russia on reports of an airfield attack.
re: #65 BeachDem
Griffith also did a TV ad in support of Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt during the 1984 U.S. Senate race against Jesse Helms. Unfortunately, Reagan’s landslide helped propel Helms to victory and squelched Hunt’s plans to run for president in 1988.
Okay…maybe I can go back to sleep for a half hour.
Went to go check my email at Yahoo, and:
Yahoo: New feature, your email is now grouped by categories. You can turn this off by going to settings,
Me: *Goes to settings, turns it off*
re: #16 Targetpractice
Your semi-regular reminder that the time to check your room and lodge complaints is when you check in, not 12 hours later when you just got back from the club and find that things are not up to your high standards. At 3pm, we still have a plenty of open rooms and perhaps housekeeping staff on-site who can spruce things up for you. At 2am, I have nothing available to move you to and housekeeping will not be here for another 7 hours.
And no, we will not give you a comp upgrade at any time of the day just because the room does not look exactly like the picture on the website.
I forgot my phone charger and the alarm clock in the room is broken so I asked the front desk for a wakeup call. Then I woke up on my own, about 10 minutes after the time I asked for the call.
The solution is to keep a phone charger in my carryon bag at all times.
303,000 jobs created in March - well above 200,000 expected. Unemployment rate drops to 3.8 percent from 3.9.
re: #76 TarHellion
303,000 jobs created in March - well above 200,000 expected. Unemployment rate drops to 3.8 percent from 3.9.
Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.
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re: #77 Nerdy Fish
Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.
“Biden is doing nothing to get inflation under control.”
re: #77 Nerdy Fish
I was chatting with a coworker in the twin cities - he noted that Target and Best Buy were laying off IT folks - and an old friend got let go from Citigroup.
Be careful out there….
re: #79 Belafon
“Biden is doing nothing to get inflation under control.”
All while Trump is proposing massive hikes in tariffs on foreign goods (which is a huge inflationary pressure on what people pay for everything, especially cars).
re: #83 lawhawk
All while Trump is proposing massive hikes in tariffs on foreign goods (which is a huge inflationary pressure on what people pay for everything, especially cars).
The report also shows that average hourly wages are up 4.1% over the last twelve months, outpacing inflation.
re: #84 No Malarkey!
Well, the billionaires can’t let that happen. They want to claw back that 4.1% wage hike across the board, and see that increase their own wealth. How dare anyone but them get benefit for people working?
re: #80 Captain Magic
I was chatting with a coworker in the twin cities - he noted that Target and Best Buy were laying off IT folks - and an old friend got let go from Citigroup.
Be careful out there….
I’m in a good position right now. It’s also worth noting that in this area, despite all the high-tech firms operating here, the tech/IT community is rather small. We all know each other. All those people who are getting laid off will have little trouble finding new work elsewhere, provided their reputation is sound. It just sucks to have to go through the revolving door, but given the state of the tech/IT industry as a whole, it’ll probably work out better for them in the long run.
re: #80 Captain Magic
I was chatting with a coworker in the twin cities - he noted that Target and Best Buy were laying off IT folks - and an old friend got let go from Citigroup.
Be careful out there….
My company (fortune 50, so big It) laid off most of our IT department and hired TCS from India to do our IT. At a nuts and bolts level it’s been hell. All of the institutional knowledge that was lost has really hurt. On a financial level it’s been great, they cut out those salaries and benefits and the market seems to approve.
Shocker. Israel says they concluded their investigation of their WCK volunteer killings. They fired 2 officers. Can you say scapegoats/whitewashed.
re: #86 lawhawk
Well, the billionaires can’t let that happen. They want to claw back that 4.1% wage hike across the board, and see that increase their own wealth. How dare anyone but them get benefit for people working?
Good luck with that. The last Baby Boomers turn sixty this year, and Boomers are retiring from the workforce at a rapid clip. There aren’t enough Zoomers to replace them. Barring a severe economic downturn, or a big increase in legal immigration, we are going to have a tight labor market for years to come, which gives workers a lot of bargaining power.
re: #91 Vicious Babushka
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re: #91 Vicious Babushka
New movie idea:
God’s Will
A woman is raped in Texas, and the state prevents her from getting an abortion. So she spends the next 18 years training her son, who then goes on a killing spree against the families and people that prevented her from getting one.
re: #52 Nerdy Fish
I should’ve had the beagle. I know too many words.
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re: #51 Nerdy Fish
You say sarcasm, but look at the phrasing of the bill: “on devices used by minors”. This includes the family computer (remember, Alabama, I highly doubt most families have more than one), and while it’s probably true that most minors these days would have a phone or a tablet to do that sort of thing on, it’s a foot in the door. How long before the first ruling comes down, “Any device in a household with a minor must have a porn filter on it”? I guarantee you it won’t be long.
And once the state is forcing software onto all your devices it’s not hard for said mandated package to include code to allow the state to monitor your location, calls, sites you link too, images, etc. So the device is essentially totally compromised and just awaiting “Order 66”.
Plus you have to figure any such state mandated backdoor will also be hacked and lead to a massive data link sooner rather than later since said software will be contracted out to a low bidder and/or governor’s crony and thus have few quality safe guards included.
Job growth zoomed in March as payrolls jumped by 303,000 and unemployment dropped to 3.8%
NYT/Fox: Stellar Jobs Report and Booming Economy is Bad News for Dems in November
re: #89 GlutenFreeJesus
Shocker. Israel sars they concluded their investigation of their WCK volunteer killings. They fired 2 officers. Can you say scapegoats/whitewashed.
Pointed out on another forum by a former USA military officer the following:
1. Israel acted much faster than the US military would have to this event.
2. Firing mid-level officers like this indicated to every Israel FCS (Forward control officer who approves strikes) that their careers are on the line if they approve a bad strike.
Now higher officers might well escape direct punishment. Though I half-expect a few generals might now have hit their career ceilings and never see further promotion and be expected to retire early.
Militaries tend to not air their dirty laundry at all. Instead staff and higher officers simply find their career options very limited and their further progress up the chain of command ended.
The USN in WW2 was very tight about public criticism within their ranks due to a very public controversy between two admirals after the Spanish-American War that the admirals in WW2 had seen happening while they were midshipmen and ensigns. There is some belief that Halsey sort of skated on criticism about his handling of the fleet during typhoons due to this. Nimitz instead sort of sidelined him since Spruance was going to be in charge for the planned 1945-46 operations anyways.
re: #94 Belafon
New movie idea:
God’s Will
A woman is raped in Texas, and the state prevents her from getting an abortion. So she spends the next 18 years training her son, who then goes on a killing spree against the families and people that prevented her from getting one.
That’s dark.
re: #104 Vicious Babushka
Yes, it is. Very. But it’s a logical conclusion of their “It must have been God’s will you were raped” idea. Not the only one, obviously, but why isn’t it as valid as their idea? (Rhetorical question.)
re: #106 Shropshire Slasher
Earthquake upstate NY!
SRSLY?
When?
I just heard a shelf rattle in my LR, but assumed it was cat-related
(Lower Manhattan)
About five to ten seconds. I thought maybe there was a truck going through the neighborhood at first, but it became obvious what it was very quickly.
re: #106 Shropshire Slasher
Earthquake upstate NY!
Daughter just texted, said Phoenixville shook. Said 15 seconds or so.
Cooper was chirping running around. Had washer going, I missed it. Heard rumbling, but a lot of construction is going on close to me.
He sensed it.
re: #38 Dr Lizardo
Send some Jamaicans in. We love curry goat. 😂 😂 😂
re: #105 Belafon
Yes, it is. Very. But it’s a logical conclusion of their “It must have been God’s will you were raped” idea. Not the only one, obviously, but why isn’t it as valid as their idea? (Rhetorical question.)
I dislike rape as a plot device in movies. But it might be a good twist to have the increasingly pregnant mother exacting her own revenge during her pregnancy…”Welcome to my third trimester, Pastor Prolife! (bam!)”
re: #112 Patricia Kayden
Send some Jamaicans in. We love curry goat. 😂 😂 😂
The Italian restaurant we frequent makes goat every Easter. Missed it this year as we were in Mexico.
Looks like the epicenter was near Whitehouse Station, NJ in central/north NJ.
re: #114 darthstar
I dislike rape as a plot device in movies. But it might be a good twist to have the increasingly pregnant mother exacting her own revenge during her pregnancy…”Welcome to my third trimester, Pastor Prolife! (bam!)”
Agree, but it’s definitely a plot device in real life. And that’s all the “pro-life” people think, that it’s something written in people’s lives by God.
re: #116 Mattand
Looks like the epicenter was near Whitehouse Station, NJ in central/north NJ.
Sounds like Ramapo Fault. We lived on it, felt one.
re: #116 Mattand
Looks like the epicenter was near Whitehouse Station, NJ in central/north NJ.
Somewhere out there, anyway: various news report the epicenter anywhere between 20-40 miles west of NYC.
4.8 is enough to do moderate damage close-in, hope there were no disasters
re: #117 darthstar
Bypass construction around here is noisy at times. Cooper went off running around and barking. He does that with garbage and UPS trucks. Thought that was what he heard. Washer was running, he was barking and I did hear a rumble, but like I said…
It was north and east of here, we see how far west when it gets sorted out.
re: #113 nines09
4.8 report out of Jersey.
I wonder if it’s due to ice loss in the Northeast — with caps melting faster in Greenland & seas rising land will be shifting up in places and down in others due to weight displacement, making for more seismic shift and activity?
Heard reports of shaking houses from friends in Western Mass and Southern Vermont.
re: #119 Decatur Deb
Sounds like Ramapo Fault. We lived on it, felt one.
re: #120 Jay C
Somewhere out there, anyway: various news report the epicenter anywhere between 20-40 miles west of NYC.
4.8 is enough to do moderate damage close-in, hope there were no disasters
My sister has a friend who lives near the reported epicenter. Apparently this person’s house shook way harder than what we felt.
Had no idea NJ had a fault line.
re: #122 Randall Gross
I wonder if it’s due to ice loss in the Northeast — with caps melting faster in Greenland & seas rising land will be shifting up in places and down in others due to weight displacement, making for more seismic shift and activity?
Your guess is as good as mine, but a vacuum will be filled. Fracking will cause tremors and quakes.
My son’s in Brooklyn, and he said they felt rumbling, but nothing else.
So am I understanding the latest IDF version of what happened correctly:
They tracked the vehicles to the building, knowing that they were aid workers.
They mistook a bag for a rifle and thought that the cars were either taken over by gunmen or had a gunman/men inside.
Without any further proof they decided to kill everyone in all 3 cars.
WTF?
Videos should start rolling in along with scores of fakes.
re: #125 nines09
Your guess is as good as mine, but a vacuum will be filled. Fracking will cause tremors and quakes.
NJ is fracking-free as far as I know.
Cue Trump blaming the quake on windmills.
re: #122 Randall Gross
I wonder if it’s due to ice loss in the Northeast — with caps melting faster in Greenland & seas rising land will be shifting up in places and down in others due to weight displacement, making for more seismic shift and activity?
I am gonna go with no, sometimes an earthquake is just an earthquake. The land around the great lakes is still rebounding from the compression of the glaciers that disappeared 11000 years ago.
re: #129 Mattand
NJ is fracking-free as far as I know.
Cue Trump blaming the quake on windmills.
They did that because they didn’t want to foul the Delaware River watershed, unlike the assholes in Pennsylvania. Fuck your Chesapeake watershed.
re: #122 Randall Gross
I wonder if it’s due to ice loss in the Northeast — with caps melting faster in Greenland & seas rising land will be shifting up in places and down in others due to weight displacement, making for more seismic shift and activity?
I saw something the other day that said that the melting water is shifting to the equator, and that will cause the equator to bulge more, and all that physics says it’s going to do things to the planet’s rotation. So, yeah, we’re gonna do some stuff to the stability of the planet’s surface.
re: #130 danarchy
I am gonna go with no, sometimes an earthquake is just an earthquake. The land around the great lakes is still rebounding from the compression of the glaciers that disappeared 11000 years ago.
Most likely you are right, but … land where ice melts land rebounds, and where that water flows land sinks. The next few decades are going to prove nothing if not interesting in that Chinese curse sort of way.
an earthquake three days before a total eclipse of the sun would absolutely have taken out a whole ass dynasty back in the day
re: #130 danarchy
I am gonna go with no, sometimes an earthquake is just an earthquake. The land around the great lakes is still rebounding from the compression of the glaciers that disappeared 11000 years ago.
How often do earthquakes occur in that area?
re: #130 danarchy
I’m going to agree with the “just an earthquake” scenario: while it’s not as seismically active as, say, California (or Japan), we DO get the occasional temblor: rarely very intense, though; but still a reminder that Planet Earth isn’t always as “rock-solid” as we might think.
ADD: re: #136 Belafon
In the City, perceptible quakes only occur about once every 15-20 years or so. Before it was updated, I googled “earthquake new york” and got news reports from a cluster of small quakes in 2001
re: #130 danarchy
I am gonna go with no, sometimes an earthquake is just an earthquake. The land around the great lakes is still rebounding from the compression of the glaciers that disappeared 11000 years ago.
I’m going to go ahead and blame the Iranians or the guys who remotely took over the Dali and rammed it into the bridge.
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re: #135 Joe Bacon ✅
Lots of reports so far on the DYFI (Did You Feel It?) Map
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My son just missed the quake; his HS Band took their Spring Break trip to NYC last week.
re: #135 Joe Bacon ✅
My wife said the house shook and creaked for a good 10-15 seconds. I was outside walking. Didn’t feel it.
Oh well. Gotta expect aftershock/foreshock (if another bigger one is coming).
re: #135 Joe Bacon ✅
Lots of reports so far on the DYFI (Did You Feel It?) Map
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mrs coin told me about it…she’s out on Long Island this week
re: #140 lawhawk
My wife said the house shook and creaked for a good 10-15 seconds. I was outside walking. Didn’t feel it.
Oh well. Gotta expect aftershock/foreshock (if another bigger one is coming).
Time for Trump’s attorneys to file a motion demanding a continuance of his Manhattan trial date due to the quake!
re: #136 Belafon
Infrequently, but still possible. Due to the ground structure, smaller quakes on the East Coast can be felt further away than say in CA.
re: #129 Mattand
NJ is fracking-free as far as I know.
Cue Trump blaming the quake on windmills.
Kaiju
I think a lot of this stuff is going to be like climate change. The report I read said that the people who keep time are possibly seeing changes that affect the rotation of the earth in ways that affect the difference between earth time and atomic time. And melting is moving a lot of water around, and since we are mostly a floating outer shell on a bed of liquid, enough water moving could cause effects. But they will be small enough that no single incident could be 100% attributed to it.
re: #7 silverdolphin
Artificial stupidity strikes again.
re: #9 ckkatz
TLDR: Hamas is worse so what we did was okay.
re: #60 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Birb here, too
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re: #138 b.d.
I’m going to go ahead and blame the Iranians or the guys who remotely took over the Dali and rammed it into the bridge.
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seems obvious. why wouldn’t you?
re: #152 No Malarkey!
Republicans have been prepping the press for this day for decades, ever since Cronkite, Woodwork, and Bernstein. “The press should be neutral towards the parties” rather than “The press should defend democracy.”
wondering how far a certain grave in Bedminster is from the quake epicenter>>>🤔
re: #140 lawhawk
I’m, in Toronto, which is a fair distance from the epicentre but I was woken up about that time by what my sleep befuddled brain thought was large machinery moving nearby.
It lasted only a few seconds and I lay awake waiting for more but nothing came.
Maybe the quake is what cause the noise?
re: #42 Decatur Deb
Math. Inflation eventually caught up with the “Dollar” business model. The stores tried to keep down costs by pioneering shrinkflation packaging, but they simply can’t buy enough product to keep their identity credible.
The Bay Area still has quite a few dollar stores (which are useful for buying things like cheap stickers, glue, art supplies, etc for children), but now there’s also “Five* and Below”. Five Dollars that is.
For those in the east where earthquakes are rare, do modern building codes take seismic activity as a factor in materials or construction? On the west coast, they’re routine and an important part. It’s why you don’t see tall brick buildings. They don’t guarantee imperviousness to tremors, especially for large ones, but they can keep buildings from falling apart.
re: #62 TarHellion
A Face in the Crowd showcases Andy Griffith’s true talent as an actor. And the film was eerily prescient about the linkage of entertainment and politics. The film was shunned from awards consideration because director Elia Kazan had egregiously dropped dime on Hollywood contemporaries during the HUAC hearings a few years earlier. But Griffith more than deserved an Oscar nomination, though he probably still would have lost to Alec Guinness for The Bridge on the River Kwai.
If you ever see A Face in the Crowd pop up on TCM, check it out. Griffith ain’t no Sheriff Andy Taylor in this.
I thought that was Griffith’s nature. So was it really acting?
re: #63 Shropshire Slasher
If a garbage bag started walking around my yard, is best it with a broomstick.
re: #159 GlutenFreeJesus
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A few minutes later — a little lower
re: #157 aatharuv
The Bay Area still has quite a few dollar stores (which are useful for buying things like cheap stickers, glue, art supplies, etc for children), but now there’s also “Five* and Below”. Five Dollars that is.
Five Below sells stuff above five dollars. Dollar General and Dollar Tree sell a number of things that cost more than a dollar.
As to the earthquake I was in Center City Philly I did not even know about it until I got home.
re: #167 Belafon
Five Below sells stuff above five dollars. Dollar General and Dollar Tree sell a number of things that cost more than a dollar.
I only shop in five and dimes.
re: #159 GlutenFreeJesus
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The two week graph is particularly delightful:
re: #166 Hecuba’s daughter
Can you show the chart from the beginning of the week?
re: #171 goddamnedfrank
The one month graph is particularly delightful:
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That’s what I wanted to see.
re: #171 goddamnedfrank
He’s busy suing and getting countersued for bringing out DJT as a stock/business concern. The two guys who brought idea of buying Trump Social and going public sued Trump in DE and he countersued in FL (which was a big no no, since the DE suit was filed first and was proper venue). He can’t help himself with suits, thinking that he deserves to get all the money and everyone else in on the deal gets shafted.
Everyone deserves to go bankrupt in this chain of events though.
re: #171 goddamnedfrank
The two week graph is particularly delightful:
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I’ve never seen a Beta of 6.36 before.
Incredible
Blockbuster jobs report - here’s why that’s bad news for Biden.
re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg
Today in stupid bumper stickers:
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You must remember rule #1.
If everyone got into heaven, why would it be special?
re: #180 lawhawk
Blockbuster jobs report - here’s why that’s bad news for Biden.
And you’re not going to like their policy, dude.
re: #177 lawhawk
He’s busy suing and getting countersued for bringing out DJT as a stock/business concern. The two guys who brought idea of buying Trump Social and going public sued Trump in DE and he countersued in FL (which was a big no no, since the DE suit was filed first and was proper venue). He can’t help himself with suits, thinking that he deserves to get all the money and everyone else in on the deal gets shafted.
Everyone deserves to go bankrupt in this chain of events though.
Interesting — at the beginning of the year, the stock value is shown as 17.45. So it has a long way to fall to reach this price.
The EBS just went off to tell me there was an earthquake.
re: #163 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I thought that was Griffith’s nature. So was it really acting?
As I understand, Don Knotts was calm and collected on set, Andy Griffith was hyperactive and easily excited.
re: #185 Shropshire Slasher
The EBS just went off to tell me there was an earthquake.
What, 90 min after the fact?
re: #178 goddamnedfrank
I’ve never seen a Beta of 6.36 before.
Incredible
For reference the most volatile stock I track (but don’t own) is Rigetti, a Quantum Computing play, has a Beta of 2.5. That makes sense, QC is still in fairly early stages and you’d expect a lot of volatility in that space.
A $5B valuation on a social media stock entirely dependent on the insane rantings of one clearly decompensating 77 year old man makes no sense at all. Never did.
re: #176 Belafon
Anyone else remember TG&Y?
It was a regular sibling expedition. For no reason, we called it Tooey, Gooey, and Yuck.
Andy Griffith, No Time for Sergeants. An annual watch when we were kids.
re: #185 Shropshire Slasher
The EBS just went off to tell me there was an earthquake.
Mine, too.
Like 45 minutes afterwards.
Not much of an “Emergency”, I guess.
April 5 (Reuters) - Tesla has canceled the long-promised inexpensive car that investors have been counting on to drive its growth into a mass-market automaker, according to three sources familiar with the matter and company messages seen by Reuters.
The automaker will continue developing self-driving robotaxis on the same small-vehicle platform, the sources said.The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla(TSLA.O), opens new tab chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan”, opens new tab for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a “low cost family car.”
re: #188 goddamnedfrank
A $5B valuation on a social media stock entirely dependent on the insane rantings of one clearly decompensating 77 year old man makes no sense at all. Never did.
As a serious *investment* opportunity, no: no sense at all (even by stock-market standards).
As some sort of sophisticated big-bucks scam? Designed to enrich Donald Trump (and probably a small core of “insiders”) though program trading? Yeah, “sense” there.
As I understand it, TFG is still going to end up owning millions of shares in DJT that cost him (as I understand it) nothing. So basically, found money (even if a reduced sum)…
Which hopefully he will have to use for bail money.
re: #169 PhillyPretzel ✅
Check out the bottom of the page. Nat’l Weather Service in Mt Holly NJ felt it too.
weather.gov
re: #194 goddamnedfrank
So, Musk’s abandoned the mass-market inexpensive EV market.
Guess it’s just gonna be Cybertrucks all the way down.
Tweet w/one explanation of why East Coast quakes send the shimmies out farther.
re: #199 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Amazon Medical Care is where Prime Video used to be in the menu.
I’ve accidentally ordered a lobotomy instead of a rental of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
What can you do when they put it right up there in your face?
re: #199 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Amazon Medical Care is where Prime Video used to be in the menu.
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Donald Trump makes a lot of sense. He says what I’m thinking!
re: #198 jaunte
So I guess it was the earthquake that woke me up.
I figured out that my Wordle got screwy yesterday because of a cookie-dumping session. I try to be selective, but I ended up with a bogus albatross. Here’s a regular partridge to add to my mystery stats from a time when I logged in to play, or something. Wordle 1,021 4/6*
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No yellows, so not ‘back to normal’. Or it’s the new normal.
re: #202 Romantic Heretic
So I guess it was the earthquake that woke me up.
That steady swaying back and forth, as if in a cradle again! 😂
We’ve had a few from fracking in Oklahoma .
re: #189 jaunte
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I need to find my shocked face.
re: #205 Dr. Matt
He can’t find a New York lawyer or a New York insurance company. How strange.
re: #206 jaunte
He can’t find a New York lawyer or a New York insurance company. How strange.
The company he did find may not meet the requirements to do business in NY, let alone cover the costs of being the insured on this bond. That’s why the court requested financials from Knight.
RFK Jr. Fundraisers Tied to J6ers, QAnoners, Christian Nationalists, and Far-Right Extremists
Let there be no doubt that RFK Jr’s candidacy is pure ratfucking. https://t.co/eYi0ztHbMd— HawaiiDelilah™ (@HawaiiDelilah) April 5, 2024
New York City felt the biggest earthquake since 1884. Here’s what we know about the likeness of an aftershock and how to check if your building’s okay:
NEW: There is less than a 4% chance per USGS that a bigger quake — at or above 5.0 in magnitude — will follow Friday’s 4.8 in northern New Jersey.
There is a 46% chance or one or more aftershocks at/above 3.0, but that would be felt only locally. #earthquake pic.twitter.com/lNVSvbp8ED— Matthew Cappucci (@MatthewCappucci) April 5, 2024
re: #208 lawhawk
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re: #194 goddamnedfrank
Elon wants his Sparky cars to be for the elite he screams about being the enemy.
They will buy his scrap metal anyway. For the prestige of having that much money, just like the other high priced shit cars and trucks.
There are a multitude of vehicles that scream “I DO NOT HAVE A BRAIN!”
See them every day.
re: #210 Belafon
Some of the math behind seismological predictions:
Gambling scores for earthquake predictions and forecasts
re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
re: #112 Patricia Kayden
Send some Jamaicans in. We love curry goat. 😂 😂 😂
My favorite bodega in Miami was the Goat’s Head Soup Store (we called it that as the sign advertising Goat’s Heads Soup was larger than the store sign) on East 79th Street just west of Biscayne Blvd.
Never tried the goats head soup, but my go-to place to purchase Uncle Pank’s scotch bonnet hot sauce and take out curried goat.
Yummy.
re: #211 wrenchwench
Any sort of racial supremacy to me is a supreme expression of pure intellectual laziness.
A large part of any supremacist agenda is the attempt to take credit for historical achievements, devoid of my sort of actual history or important context. This to me is a supremely dishonest way of relying on historical figures and movements in order to boost your own credibility and substance. Weak and weird to me.
re: #212 nines09
We have often seen the pattern where something is made expensive at first, and so only the rich can afford it, but as it’s manufactured, the price comes down. The problem for Musk is he stopped trying to make affordable cars a while back, choosing to invest in self-driving in stead. Now he’s just doing it openly. Other companies will figure out how to bring prices down.
re: #216 Florida Panhandler
Any sort of racial supremacy to me is a supreme expression of pure intellectual laziness.
A large part of any supremacist agenda is the attempt to take credit for historical achievements, devoid of my sort of actual history or important context. This to me is a supremely dishonest way of relying on historical figures and movements in order to boost your own credibility and substance. Weak and weird to me.
Yes. No science in it. Lots of ego.
We wanted to understand what caused today’s earthquake in New York City. So we talked to three unvaccinated Trump Media investors at a Chick-fil-A in Staten Island.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) April 5, 2024
re: #218 wrenchwench
Yes. No science in it. Lots of ego.
Lots of pseudoscience. Remember that racial research was booming in the late 19th and early 20th centures. All bout proving why whites were superior so as to justify their colonialism
re: #219 Captain Ron
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I thought they’d head for a diner in rural South Carolina to discuss how the New York media’s fixation on reporting on New York events really illustrates the bias of New York media against rural America.
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Lots of pseudoscience. Remember that racial research was booming in the late 19th and early 20th centures
Propaganda is another word for it.
Funny how that works out…https://t.co/683ph1tAtU
— Ann Crossley (@ann_crossley) April 4, 2024
re: #222 wrenchwench
Propaganda is another word for it.
Justifying their rape and robbery of 3/4 of the globe
re: #217 Belafon
More people than you know buy the brand they adore, better or worse, than the competition.
A Ford guy would never buy a Chevy, even if the Chevy was better.
And vice versa.
Saw it. And yes, they were idiots.
Elon right now is a big deal to a lot of like minded and others who think he’s a genius and will save the world.
He’s an ego laden racist pr!ck.
re: #223 Captain Ron
DJT cannot be expected to participate in good faith or with any sense of fair play.
He refuses to recognize the outcome of the last election and still sees the Jan 6th rioters as “political prisoners”. He sees his own current court cases - the result of his own actions - as persecution and political theater.
You cannot debate with someone who does not recognize and accept objective facts & reality.
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Lots of pseudoscience. Remember that racial research was booming in the late 19th and early 20th centures
Oh yeah - guys like Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and later fellow travelers like Alfred Rosenberg.
The legacy of Arthur de Gobineau is still with us. He was pretty much the grandfather of pseudoscientific racism.
re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Justifying their rape and robbery of 3/4 of the globe
Forget where I heard it, maybe here.
Why are there pyramids in Egypt?
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Big if true 👀 👀
This went a bit under the radar.
The Coordination Council of Islamic Revolution Forces, a conservative umbrella group in Iran, says IRGC commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi (killed in the Damascus strike) was involved in “designing and implementing” the October 7th massacre.— Tzvi Joffre (@TzviJoffre) April 4, 2024
re: #217 Belafon
We have often seen the pattern where something is made expensive at first, and so only the rich can afford it, but as it’s manufactured, the price comes down. The problem for Musk is he stopped trying to make affordable cars a while back, choosing to invest in self-driving in stead. Now he’s just doing it openly. Other companies will figure out how to bring prices down.
seems like musk should focus on quality control for his cars first. self drivers aren’t much good if the car is in the shop or broken down on the side of the road.
re: #225 nines09
More people than you know buy the brand they adore, better or worse, than the competition.
A Ford guy would never buy a Chevy, even if the Chevy was better.
And vice versa.
Saw it. And yes, they were idiots.
Elon right now is a big deal to a lot of like minded and others who think he’s a genius and will save the world.
He’s an ego laden racist pr!ck.
A friend loves his Bolt. Too bad GM is run by morons — not racist morons like Elmo — but just ordinary short-sighted morons.
“The economy is doing better than everybody expected” — it’s time for my favorite Friday tradition: Maria Bartiromo and company cope with *yet another* strong Biden jobs report pic.twitter.com/6ePoTPgHcq
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re: #231 Hecuba’s daughter
A friend loves his Bolt. Too bad GM is run by morons — not racist morons like Elmo — but just ordinary short-sighted morons.
They might be racist morons. Most racist morons who are in business are smart enough to keep that to themselves so they can profit from people they hate. Elon used to be able to do that until he lost his mind completely over a trans daughter and being dumped.
re: #233 Belafon
Why “better than expected”?
Because we have been hearning nothing but how the Biden Administration has been a disaster for America and its economy.
Pam Grier, Village Roadshow Developing Project Based on Her Memoir, ‘Foxy: My Life in Three Acts’ (EXCLUSIVE)Film icon Pam Grier has teamed with Village Roadshow Pictures to develop a project based on her bestselling 2010 memoir, “Foxy: My Life in Three Acts.”
Known as the queen of 1970s Blaxploitation classics like “Coffy” and “Foxy Brown,” plus Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-nominated film “Jackie Brown,” Grier is enjoying her latest act thanks to movies like 2023’s “Cinnamon.” That film kicked off her relationship with Village Roadshow Pictures, which produced the title under the company’s Black Noir Cinema banner for Tubi.
“Foxy: My Life in Three Acts” details Grier’s legendary screen career; her relationships with Richard Pryor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Freddie Prinze, among others; her experience as a Black female star in an era with rampant racism and sexism; and her battle with stage-four cervical cancer, diagnosed in 1988, when she was told she had 18 months to live.
re: #234 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
From an actual geologist, the real answer:
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Ramapo Fault Zone just doing lulz
re: #163 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I thought that was Griffith’s nature. So was it really acting?
Trump is entering the Lonesome Roades stage of his life.
Not a big fan of the Andy Griffith show, but you gotta appreciate how his character played the “straight man”, the set up guy for all the town’s bumbling characters.
Contrast the Andy Griffith Show that with Griffith’s sherriff character in a 1980s TV movie, Murder in Coweta County.
re: #235 sagehen
They keep saying that, but I dispute.
In 1985 there was a 5.something in Montreal that I definitely felt here on the UWS.
Those are Imperial Richters.
re: #227 Dr Lizardo
Oh yeah - guys like Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and later fellow travelers like Alfred Rosenberg.
The legacy of Arthur de Gobineau is still with us. He was pretty much the grandfather of pseudoscientific racism.
Guys like Elmo who think head size is related to intelligence.
re: #198 jaunte
West coast earthquakes don’t propagate as far for a couple of reasons. First is that they tend to be relatively shallow, less than 15 miles so basement rock doesn’t get as disturbed as for deep quakes. The exception is for quakes on the Cascadia subduction zone off of Oregon and Washington. The second reason is the rocks on the west coast have been sutured on to the North America continent as island arcs have moved across the Pacific and finally met up with the continent. As a result, these rocks are more broken up due to the number of faults that have appeared where these island arcs have subducted and had material scraped off to form land. Seismic waves don’t travel as far through that kind of rock.
For a fascinating description of this process, have a look at John McPhee’s book, Assembling California. It’s the last in a series of 4 books on the geology of the United States.
re: #245 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Guys like Elmo who think head size is related to intelligence.
Phrenology.
One of the classics, LOL.
So I discover our new kitten gurl really hates my CPAP mask and she will try to get it off me sometimes. She sleeps completely through the night now but she insists on sleeping on the bed and preferably touching me or spouse. Physical contact seems super important to her at bed time. So 5:30 this morning I wake up and take my mask off and she instantly gets off shoulder of sleeping spouse and is instantly glued to my neck and right ear where she curls up with her purr turning to 11 and starts washing herself.
That sounds very disconcerting RIGHT IN YOUR EAR
OK OK yes I love you too. Go bug mom. Yes you’re a good girl. Go get mom. Mom won’t mind, here let me help you…ow stop chewing on me, OK I’m putting you over here now. Ow.
re: #246 sizzzzlerz
West coast earthquakes don’t propagate as far for a couple of reasons. First is that they tend to be relatively shallow, less than 15 miles so basement rock doesn’t get as disturbed as for deep quakes. The exception is for quakes on the Cascadia subduction zone off of Oregon and Washington. The second reason is the rocks on the west coast have been sutured on to the North America continent as island arcs have moved across the Pacific and finally met up with the continent. As a result, these rocks are more broken up due to the number of faults that have appeared where these island arcs have subducted and had material scraped off to form land. Seismic waves don’t travel as far through that kind of rock.
For a fascinating description of this process, have a look at John McPhee’s book, Assembling California. It’s the last in a series of 4 books on the geology of the United States.
We have a number of suspect exotic terranes here in NC
re: #248 Randall Gross
And elder rocks are where the old ones dwell, KAIJU!
The elder ones include Cthlulhu.
re: #76 TarHellion
But President Biden is 90 years old!!!! /s
re: #254 Scottish Dragon
Frylock really let himself go.
re: #207 lawhawk
The company he did find may not meet the requirements to do business in NY, let alone cover the costs of being the insured on this bond. That’s why the court requested financials from Knight.
To borrow a phrase from Richard Pryor:
The State of New York is tired of Trump’s ass.
re: #253 Belafon
The elder ones include Cthlulhu.
There are some fan bases that argue about connectedness between the two mythos.
re: #233 Belafon
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NYT/Maria Bartiromo: “The stock market is going great, but it’s not outstanding. Another Biden failure!!!
re: #242 No Malarkey!
Found something to name after Trump.
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Diaper Donnie would think it’s an honor.
re: #260 Dr. Matt
NYT/Maria Bartiromo: “The stock market is going great, but it’s not outstanding. Another Biden failure!!!
“It would be doing so much better under DJT!”
re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“It would be doing so much better under DJT!”
Forget that. Trump’s taking credit for Biden’s great economy, and trying to get people to misremember/ignore Trump’s disastrous economic policies/outcomes, especially, Trump’s final year in office.
re: #250 jeffreyw
Wow. What a wild, tragic story.
re: #208 lawhawk
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It’s going to backfire. He’ll pull more Trump voters than Biden voters.
re: #236 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
They might be racist morons. Most racist morons who are in business are smart enough to keep that to themselves so they can profit from people they hate. Elon used to be able to do that until he lost his mind completely over a trans daughter and being dumped.
Elon lost his mind when Tesla was sued by a black worker in the Fremont factory for harassment and racial bias years ago. It soon after that he moved to Texas where he can be a lot more racist than California will allow.
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